Chance Quotes
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If you chance your focus - you will change your life.
Bill Bartmann -
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Stefan Edberg -
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
Dante Alighieri -
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.
Alexander Acosta -
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Emile Chartier -
You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
Sarah Dessen -
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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When you have a chance on the road, and we had many, you've got to finish it. Right now, (we're) a team that didn't take it by the throat and finish it when they had an opportunity.
Dan Monson -
It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
Stephen Gaghan -
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
Elizabeth Bennett -
Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?
Catherynne M. Valente -
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
Euripides -
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
Clarence John Laughlin
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By ignoring my fear, I learned that the fear was groundless. Over the years, I have met people who took what seemed the safer path and were the lesser for it...I had taken a risk, and that risk yielded that greatest reward...Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.
Edwin Catmull -
He wasn't making the cuts he was used to making. We knew there was a chance he may not play.
Bob Stoops -
By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.
Charles Martin Smith -
I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
Cathy Freeman -
To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
Jose Angel Gurria -
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
Marcel Proust
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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
Seth Godin -
The real trouble with war modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound -
There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
Vivienne Westwood -
You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'